Korean slang profile
캐피스룩
kaepiseuruk
Comfortable office-appropriate clothing
Clothes comfortable to wear while also suitable for office work.
- Expanded form
- casual + office + lookcasual + office + look
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
단정한 셔츠와 편한 바지로 캐피스룩을 연출했다.
I created a 캐피스룩 with a neat shirt and comfortable pants.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “캐피스룩” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection presents caffice, combining casual and office, followed by look. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026